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A challenger to the Gavilan Joint Community College District Trustee Area 4 seat has upset a 20-year incumbent. Patricia Mondragon received 60.81 percent of the votes as of Nov. 5, nearly 1,300 votes ahead of longtime trustee Mark Dover. Mondragon, a Gilroy native, is currently the...

The Affordable Connectivity Program, a federal program that provides internet access to low-income families, has ended after Congress failed to reach an agreement to keep funding it. Over 23 million households—including thousands in Santa Clara and San Benito counties—will no longer receive federal subsidies...

Dan Bertelli, a pharmacist and former city council member whose generosity and entrepreneurial spirit helped shape the Morgan Hill that exists today, died April 25. He was 90. Bertelli was born July 17, 1935, and grew up in the Daly City area, where he began...

“Nobody wants to be homeless,” shouted Rachel Kogan, a 17-year old senior at Christopher High School in response to Gilroy businessman John Webster, who boiled over in frustration over the negative impacts Gilroy’s homeless population puts on his business. “They cut through my fence...

Due to uncertainties coming out of the pandemic, the annual Veterans Parade on Memorial Day will instead march through downtown Gilroy on Veterans Day in November.  But the Memorial Day Remembrance Ceremony at St. Mary’s Cemetery will still take place, organizers said.  “We know the Memorial...

Imagine a place where children laugh as they pick sun-ripened fruit, where families reconnect with the land and animals that feed us—and where the legacy of South County’s farms thrives for generations.  This is the heart of the “Valley of Heart’s Delight,” and it’s at risk. The...

In Santa Clara County Supervisor District 1, San Jose Councilmember Sylvia Arenas led on Election Day, and never looked back. On the eighth day of ballot counting, Arenas cemented her victory, roaring to a more than 9,000-vote lead over former council member Johnny Khamis, with...

In an entertainment industry that has been overtaken by the artificial, can its writers and performers still find a human connection? This is the question at the heart of “Comic Potential,” opening April 24 at the Morgan Hill Community Playhouse. Written in 1999, the play...

A Gilroy man “significantly” injured his hand while igniting illegal fireworks and was transported to an area hospital on New Year’s Eve, according to authorities. About 11:15pm Dec. 31, the Gilroy Fire Department responded to a residence on Church Street for a medical call, according...